Franklin's Gulls Leucophaeus pipixcan breed in north-central North America, migrating to waters off western South America to spend the boreal winter. On 7 May 2017, a Franklin's Gull was recorded on D'Arros Island, the Republic of Seychelles. This is the first record of this species in Seychelles and the second for the Indian Ocean.

References

CRAMP, S. 1983. Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. Vol. 1: The Birds of the Western Palearctic (Waders to Gulls). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.